FAITH
in Christ is believing that Christ is what He is said to be,
that He will do what He has promised to do, and expecting
this of Him. The Scriptures speak of Jesus Christ as being
God, God in human flesh; as being perfect in His character;
as being made a sin-offering on our behalf; as bearing sin
in His own body on the tree. The Scriptures speak of Him as
having finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought
in everlasting righteousness. The Scriptures further tell
us that He ‘rose again’, that He ever liveth to
make intercession for us’, that He has gone up into
glory, and has taken possession of heaven on behalf of His
people, and that He will shortly come again ‘to judge
the world in righteousness, and His people with equity’.
We are most firmly to believe that it is even so; for this
is the testimony of God the Father when He said, ‘This
is My beloved Son: hear ye Him.’ This also is testified
by God the Holy Spirit; for the Spirit has borne witness to
Christ, both by the Word and by divers miracles, and by His
working in the hearts of men. We are to believe this testimony
to be true.
Faith also believes that Christ will do what He has promised;
that if He has promised to cast out none that come to Him,
it is certain that He will not cast us out if we come to Him.
Faith believes that if Jesus said, ‘The water that I
shall give to him shall be in him a well of water springing
up unto everlasting life’, it must be true; and if we
get this living water from Christ, it will abide in us, and
will well up within us in streams of holy life. Whatever Christ
has promised to do He will do, and we must believe this so
as to look for pardon, justification, preservation, and eternal
glory from His hands, according as He has promised.
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